It s remarkable that the first credit in the end roll goes to le chien, the dog Snoop (Messi). It s appropriate: his portrayal of a poisoned, dying animal won the Palm D og in 2023, and honestly, he earns it. In a film full of uncertainty and competing narratives, the dog s suffering is the one unambiguous truth.Anatomy of a Fall joins the club of great courtroom dramas, standing comfortably alongside Witness for the Prosecution, 12 Angry Men, Inherit the Wind. The script is meticulously constructed, the acting uniformly excellent, the directing assured and precise. Justine Triet orchestrates the slow unraveling of a marriage and the legal machinery that attempts to assign blame with remarkable control; we re never quite sure what happened, and that ambiguity becomes the film s greatest strength.But there s something deeply unsettling beneath the craft, and it s not just the mystery of whether Sandra killed her husband. The story carries an unmistakable misogynist slant. The male investigator cannot, will not, entertain any possibility other than the woman killed her husband. His mind is made up before the investigation truly begins. The male witnesses align themselves with this theory, reinforcing the narrative of the dangerous, ambitious woman who destroyed her struggling husband. The film may not endorse this perspective outright, but it saturates the proceedings, shaping every interrogation, every piece of evidence, every damning interpretation.Whether Triet intends this as commentary on how the legal system treats women, or whether it s an unexamined assumption within the narrative itself, remains frustratingly unclear. What s certain is that watching a woman defend not just her innocence but her very credibility against a wall of male certainty feels uncomfortably familiar, a reminder that some verdicts are reached long before evidence is weighed.While not quite a 10, this is a superbly crafted thriller that leaves you questioning not just what happened, but whose version of reality gets believed, and why.